Tracy RyanTracy Ryan is a Darwin based professional landscape, nature, commercial and Google virtual tour photographer.

For as long as I can remember I've loved the outdoors, travelling and art!

Must have been because I was conceived on gorgeous Mooloolaba Beach, Queensland (a fact that only came to light in 2006! no wonder it feels so much like home there!). I've spent much of my life traveling the country either by sky, road or sea.

My father joined the Royal Australian Air Force when I was 5 and the family was posted to several Australian towns and overseas to Penang, Malaysia.

Growing up I vowed I wanted to stay in one place, yet when I became an adult, the travel bug hit, and I went off again, travelling to many Queensland islands and settling for a time in Hobart, Tasmania.

My dream was one day to sail a yacht in the Whitsunday Islands, in Queensland and in 1998 I bought my first yacht and settled back in Mooloolaba. A few years later in 2000, I competed in an international yacht race as the navigator and 'radio chick' from Brisbane to the Solomon Islands. We came second!
I spent the next few months sailing back from the Solomon Islands (when war broke out and we had to evacuate) and cruising the Queensland coast along with three of my five children.

That's when I fell in love of the ocean and it's teeming life, beaches and shells came to the fore. Many times on those voyages between ports I saw sights that were of wonderment and complete joy, but having no means of recording those beautiful scenes I committed them to memory.

Having spent 2 years sailing I decided to return to Mooloolaba with the children and enrolled in an Arts degree. I received a High Distinction studying Photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Victoria, yet never completed the Arts degree as I had found my passion in photography. My tutors encouraged me to just keep practicing and practicing and follow my heart with my photography. I decided to capture beautiful images of this planet and Australia in particular, showing the world just how beautiful this country is, as well as encouraging others through my work to look after our precious home.

Since 2005, I've been travelling all over Australia, experiencing so many wonderous sights and scenes. I have been a tour guide through the Kimberley and along the Western Australian coast and am now a Kakadu National Park tour guide, having settled in Darwin in June 2011.

Late 2012 I also became the Northern Territory's only Google Trusted Photographer and have expanded that to encompass all of Australia. I can create amazing virtual tours of your accommodation, shop or any business that wants to show the world your wares. These tours (Google Business Street View) are added to your Google Maps listing as well as your website and social media pages.

I encourage you wholeheartedly to enjoy and own one of my photographs of this amazing world!